Category Archives: Liken History

Seems like Houston is pretty good at managing problems, but for me these last few days have been pretty problem free, actually. Thanks, Houston. I was invited by members of the Bear Creek Stake in Houston to come spend a few days with them as they staged a youth production of an adaptation of Liken’s “Esther … Continue reading →

Jonah was a lifetime ago. (Well, technically it came out in 2011, so really just three years ago, but it feels like a lifetime ago.) Hopefully, there’ll be a new Liken movie in 2015. How? Which story? These are small details to be worked out later. (In other words, I don’t yet know.) The odds, as … Continue reading →

I’m sure JetBlue thought nobody would be crazy enough to take them up on their $20 SLC-JFK roundtrip special, which had such limited applicability that in order to get the $20 fare, you had to take a red-eye out and take the return flight 9 hours later. Who would be insane enough to fly 10 … Continue reading →

I mow the grass weirdly. Sometimes in circles. Sometimes wavy lines. The occasional zig-zag pattern. Diagonals. Sometimes even a throwback to my straight-line days. I know — pretty radical stuff. It came about because at one point I thought that half my grass was sickly pale, half was healthy and robust, and there was a … Continue reading →

Recalling tonight that it was right about 5 years ago that we cast this guy to be Jonah, an effort which had started a mere 5 years before that. You just can’t rush these things, apparently. His name: David Osmond. Terrific human who had been put through a lot during those five years. And in … Continue reading →

“What happened,” messaged the fan on our facebook page a week or so ago, “to the Liken effort that used to put out a new video every year or so?” We get variations on this question from time to time. Here’s my unofficial take at a response at the moment for my seven readers of … Continue reading →

I know it’s not smart, real-estate-wise, to get attached to space. It’s just space. But I can’t help it. Space is where things happen. About this time 9 years ago, Ken and I, fresh up from California, signed our lives away to get into a non-descript office/warehouse in what is called the East Bay area … Continue reading →